Issues In Education Final Exam Flash Cards

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10th amendment

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Grants responsibility for education for each state.

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1st amendment

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Ensures freedom of speech, of religion, and of the press.

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14th amendment

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Ensures equal educational opportunities

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Excessive entanglement

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Why can’t the state legislatures provide direct aid for teacher salaries, textbooks and instructional materials to non-public schools?

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Lemon Test

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A criterion used by the United States Supreme Court to determine whether service provided to non-public school students benefit children and not a particular school or religion.

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Establishment clause

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In Santa Fay independent school district, Petitioner versus Jane DO (2000) the school district policy supporting student led prayer before football games was found by the Supreme Court to be invalid. Why? Two words

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Scopes Monkey Trial

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Charles Darwins evolution theory was taught by Jon scopes in his science class. What was this trial called?

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Can the state ban teaching of evolution?

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Yes

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Can a school board require its science teachers to discuss intelligent design?

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Yes

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Segregation

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Legal and/or social separation of people on the basis of their race.

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Desegregation

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The process of correcting illegal segregation.

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Integration

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The process of mixing students of different races in school.

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Plessy vs. Ferguson

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(1896) this court case in Louisiana said railroads could have separate but equal accommodations for black and whites races.

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Brown vs. Board of Education

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(1954) The court said in this case, separate but equal is not equal.

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Civil Rights Act

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(1964) This act added legislative power and could deny funds for those schools that would not comply to the 1954 decision.

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Discrimination

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Denial of constitutional rights to an individual or group.

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Government Faction

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Policies and procedures designed to compensate for past discrimination against women and members of minority groups.

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Reverse Discrimination

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A situation in which a majority or an individual of a majority is denied certain rights because of preferential treatment provided to a minority or an individual of a minority.

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Probationary Period

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The first one to three years for teachers in teaching.

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FERPA

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Schools must maintain confidentiality of school records (name of act)

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Progressivism, humanism, and constructivism

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The three student centered philosophies

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Essentialism, behavioralism, and positivism

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The 3 teacher centered philosophies

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Essentialism

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The teacher centered philosophy that holds there is a common core of information and skills that an educated person must have and schools must be organized to transmit this core essential material

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Behavioralism

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Teacher centered philosophy that asserts that behaviors represent the essence of a person and that all behaviors can be explained as response to stimuli.

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Positivism

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A teacher centered philosophy that limits truth and knowledge to what is observable and measurable.

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Progressivism

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A student centered philosophy where ideas should be tested by experimentation and that learning is rooted in questions developed by the learners.

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Humanism

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A student centered philosophy where humans are innately good in that they are born free but become enslaved by institutions.

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Constructivism

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A student centered philosophy that emphasizes hands on activity-based teaching and learning during which students develop their own frame of thought.

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High stakes test

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Tests that have major consequences.

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Learning Centered

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Focus directly on student learning, rather than what teachers do.

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Teacher-Centered

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Standards that focus on what teachers do and the design of instruction.

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Content Standards

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Standards that specify learning outcomes in a subject or discipline (for example, math or social studies)

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Authentic Assessment

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An assessment grounded in real world applications of what has been learned.

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Benchmark

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A level of performance at which a standard is met.

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Rubric

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A scoring guide

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Assessment

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The use of a variety of methods including test to evaluate the current level of student learning used in planning future steps in instruction.

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Performance Assessment

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Demonstration of learning through doing.

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Summarize Assessment

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Data about student performance that can be used to make a concluding judgment about a grade, promotion to the next grade, graduation, college entrance etc.

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Formative Assessment

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It is done to provide feedback to students teachers about was has been learned so far causes, new unit tests, check for understanding.

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1. Content

2. Pedagogical

3. Content Pedagogical

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What 3 kinds of knowledge do high quality teachers have?

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High Stakes Testing

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Tests that have major consequences.

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Objectives

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A statement of desired outcomes, which in education is usually a description student learning.

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Scopes Monkey Trial

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The name of the trial of the teachers who taught evolution

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Pwrformance

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Demonstration of learning by doing.

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Segregation

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Legal or illegal separation of people on the basis of their race.

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Plessy vs. Ferguson

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The railroad decision that started: “separate but equal”.

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Content

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Standards that specify learning outcomes in a subject or discipline.

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10th amendment

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Grants responsibility for education to the states.

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Rubric

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A scoring guide

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Child Benefit Theory

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A criterion used by the United states supreme court to determine whether services provided to non-public school children benefit children and that a specific school or religion.

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Learning Centered

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Focusing directly on student learning rather than on what students due.

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14th amendment

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Ensures equal educational opportunities.

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Separate but equal

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The reason why railroad companies could put different races in different sections of the train.

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Benchmarks

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A level of performance at which a standard is met.

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Teacher centered

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Standards that focus on what teachers should do in the design of instruction.

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Yes

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Can schools fire a tenure teacher?

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Intelligent Design

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After creationism failed this term was used to say that life is too complicated to think that a higher power had to be involved.

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Formative Assessment

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Tests used as quizzes and unit tests, as to examples.

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1st Amendment

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This amendment ensures freedom of speech, religion, and the press.

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Desegregation

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The process of correcting a legal segregation.

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Loco Parents

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In place of parents.

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FERPA

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Schools and teachers must maintain confidentiality of student records.

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No

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Can students use their free speech rights in creating yearbooks for the school?

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Brown vs. Board of Education

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Decision in 1954 to integrate schools.

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Assessments

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The use of each variety of methods including test to evaluate current level of student learning.

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Integration

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The process of mixing students of different races in school.

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Socio-Economic Status (SES)

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The economic conditions of individuals based on their own family’s income, occupation and educational attainment.

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Disability

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And ongoing physical, mental, or emotional condition.

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Montisouri

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And Italian Doctor and educator who developed her own schools for younger children.

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Gender

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The behavioral, cultural, and psychological traits typically associated with ones sex.

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Carol Dweck

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Fixed and growth mindset educator.

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Race

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Classification of people by their skin color.

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Achievement Gap

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NCLB was created to close this gap.

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ESL

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An educational program for teaching English to speakers of other languages without the use of the native language for instruction.

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Bilingual

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An educational program that uses English and the native language of students in classroom instruction.

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Secular

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Not based on a religion.

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Title I

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A federal program that provides financial assistance to schools with large numbers of low income students.

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Prejudice

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A preconceived negative attitude toward members of a group.

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Sexism

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The conscious or unconscious belief that men are superior to women.

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Equity

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The state of fairness across individuals and groups.

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Bullying

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Behavior of students who establish dominance over other students.

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Head-Start

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A federally funded program for preschool students from low income families.

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Free or reduced lunch

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The provisions for school breakfast/lunches for low income students.

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Neglect

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The lack of providing basic needs of housing, food, clothing, and education or medical care to students.

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Equal educational opportunities (EEO)

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Access to similar education for all students regardless of their gender, cultural background, or family circumstances.

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Discrimination

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The process that prevents members of a specific group from participating equally in society.

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Inclusion

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Integration of all students, regardless of their background in education.

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Harry Wong

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Arrow through heart instructor.

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Affirmative Action

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Policies and procedures designed to compensate for past discrimination against women and minorities.

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Racism

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The conscious or unconscious belief that one race is superior.

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19th amendment

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This amendment gave women the right to vote.

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Reverse Discrimination

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A situation in which a majority or individual of the majority is denied certain rights because of preferential treatment provided to a minority.

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Probationary Period

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The required time during which a beginning teacher must demonstrate satisfactory performance.

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Checks for understanding

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These take place throughout the lesson make sure all students understand the material being taught.

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Next Generation Learning Standards

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This replaces common core in New York State.

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1. Cognitive

2. affinities

3. Psychomotor

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Three types of domains of learning?

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1. Explain

2. Rehearse

3. Reinforce

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Harry Wong’s three steps in teaching procedures?

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1. Pressure to cheat

2. High stakes testing

3. Learning to the test

4. Increased teacher burden

5. One size fits all

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What are the five testing challenges?

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Betsy DuVois

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The secretary of education

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Content Standards

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Standards that specify learning outcomes in a subject or discipline.

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Summarize Assessment

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Data about students performance that are used to make a final judgment about promotion, graduation, college entrance, etc.

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Harry Wong

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Procedure Guru

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Enculturation

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The process of learning the characteristics and behaviors of the culture of the group to which one belongs.

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Motivation

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Internal emotion, desire, or impulse acting as an incitement to action.

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Magnet Schools

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Public schools with a focused curriculums such as the arts, math, and science. The schools are designed to attract a diverse population.

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Race

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Classification of people by their skin color.

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Values

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Principles, standards, and qualities that are considered desirable.

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Voucher

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A check or credit granted by a school district or state to pay for all or part of the tuition for students to attend a private school.

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Classroom Organization

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A multi faceted dimension of teaching that includes the content, method, and values that infuse the classroom environment, planning, and discipline practices.

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Enculturation

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The process of learning the characteristics and behaviors of the culture of the group to which one belongs.

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Title IX

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Allowed girls and women to be treated fairly (1972).

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Resullience

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Debra Rockwell’s favorite word!!!

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Bloom’s Taxonomy

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A system for classifying knowledge from simple to complex in terms of the mental activity which is required.

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19th Amendment

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This amendment gave women the right to vote.

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Culture

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Socially transmitted ways of thinking, believing, feeling, and acting passed from one generation to the next.

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Cooperative Learning

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A strategy used for grouping that provide specific roles and responsibilities for each member.

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1. Content

2. Pedagogical

3. Content Pedagogical

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What are the 3 kinda of knowledge for high quality teachers?

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Ell students

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Students whose first language is not English.

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Ethnicity

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A shared national origin or the national origin of ones ancestors.

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Charter

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Book schools established by teachers, parents, and nonprofit organizations with contracts from the states or school district.

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Head-Start

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Federally funded program for 3 to 5-year-olds from lower income families.

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Curriculum

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Anything and everything that supports student learning.

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Collegial Learning

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Teachers learning from teachers.

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Differentiated Instruction

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Regular practice of employing a variety of instructional methods and learning activities to match the different ways that students learn and to accommodate the different levels of learning that students require.

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District Instruction

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A teaching approach in which the teachers clearly and to simply provides clear, precise information.

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ESSA

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This federal education law replaced No child left behind.

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Checks for understanding

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This is done during the lesson to make sure all students are able to understand the material.

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Homogeneous

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Grouping students who are alike.

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Standards

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Statement of a desired output come which in education is usually a description of student learning

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Formative Assessment

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Type of assessment that are usually quizzes or test two of you learning progress and plan the next steps and instruction

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Behavioral objectives

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Statements of learning outcomes for lesson that are stated in observable behaviors

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ESL

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And educational program for teaching English to speakers of other languages so that the use of their native language for instruction.

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Content Knowledge

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the facts, concepts, theories, and principles that are taught and learned in specific academic courses, rather than to related skills—such as reading, writing, or researching—that students also learn in school.

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Pedagogical content knowledge

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a type of knowledge that is unique to teachers, and is based on the manner in which teachers relate their pedagogical knowledge (what they know about teaching) to their subject matter knowledge (what they know about what they teach).

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Pedagogical-content knowledge

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Pedagogical content knowledge is the integration of subject expertise and skilled teaching of that particular subject

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Inquiry

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an act of asking for information.

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Open adoption

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A state text adoption policy that allows each school district the autonomy to review and select whichever textbooks it chooses.

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State adoption

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A state textbook adoption policy that limits financial support and selections to those that are included on a state approved list.